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Patent GB-2464810-A (GB)
Title: Container for articles
Inventor: TAYLOR DAVID
IPC: B65D5/42
Filed: 2009-10-22
Abstract: A container for a plurality of articles comprises top 28, base 24, side 6, 8 and end 14, 16 walls. At least one of the walls has first and second, at least partially overlapping, flap panels 30. At least one panel contains a portion defined by lines of weakening 38, said portion overlapping a portion of the other flap panel. The two portions are moveable from a first position in which they are flush with the wall to a second position in which they stand up from the wall. The container is formed from a blank 2. Also disclosed is an article transport container with a first mode and a second mode. The first mode is achieved using a wrap-around-blank-forming apparatus by which the container is formed around the articles. The second mode is achieved by moving at least one portion of a wall of the container from a first to a second position. A method of forming the container comprises the steps of: forming a blank, erecting the blank to enclose the articles in the container, transporting the container to a shop, manipulating the container into the second mode and transporting the container from the shop.
Patent GB-2474875-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic levitation system for use to support a model in a wind tunnel
Inventor: MUSCROFT ROBERT JOHN MILLS
IPC: G01M9/00
Filed: 2009-10-30
Abstract: A magnetic levitation system comprises a base; a body e.g. a frame 28, at least one magnetic unit having a first and second transversely spaced magnetic members 24 attached to the base, and a third magnetic member 22 attached to the body, the magnetic units being rare earth permanent magnets. In use, the third magnetic member sits above the space between the first and second magnetic members due to the arrangement of poles of the members urging the body to levitate in a levitation direction that is substantially perpendicular to the transverse direction. The first and second magnetic members are substantially longer than the third magnetic member in a longitudinal direction that is substantially perpendicular to both the transverse and the levitation directions. Multiple units may be used and arranged so as to stabilize movement transverse of the base and at least one superconducting unit comprising a superconductor and a plurality of electro magnets may be associated with the base to repel a fourth body mounted magnetic member. The frame may support a model e.g. a vehicle in a wind tunnel, a frame damping sheet or a rolling road passing between the vehicle and the levitation system.
Patent GB-2475347-A (GB)
Title: Suppressing keyboard or mouse clicking or tapping in an audio signal
Inventor: SORENSEN KARSTEN VANDBORG
IPC: G10L21/00
Filed: 2009-11-26
Abstract: A method and computing system for suppressing noise in an audio signal, comprising receiving the audio signal at signal processing means; determining that another signal is input to the signal processing means, the input signal resulting from an activity which generates noise in the audio signal; and selectively suppressing noise in the audio signal in dependence on the determination that the input signal is input to the signal processing means to thereby suppress the generated noise in the audio signal. The invention lies in the suppression of keyboard or mouse tapping or clicking noises whilst the user also uses a computer for voice communication. It suppresses the noise in real time by detecting of noise producing activity is present. In a preferred embodiment, the audio signal is muted for a time period following the determination that the input signal (keyboard or mouse clicking or tapping) is input to the signal processing means, the time period being characteristic of the duration of the generated noise.
Patent GB-763237-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to signal voltage amplitude limiters and phase discriminators
IPC: G05D3/14
Filed: 1953-04-13
Abstract: 763,237. Non-linear circuits; phase discriminators. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. April 13, 1953 [April 15, 1952], No. 10014/53. Classes 40(5) and 40(6) In a circuit for deriving limited signals from applied A.C. input, a pair of reversally connected diodes 6, 7, Fig. 1 are arranged to shunt the circuit and are biased in opposite senses in accordance with the wave shape of the applied signal. A.C. fed in at terminal 2 is applied to selsyn 1, the output of which is fed over resistor 3 to the diodes 6, 7. The A.C. is also fed over transformer 10 to rectifiers 11, 12 to develop bias voltages B, C, Fig. 4, the magnitude of which is determined by ganged potentiometers 8, 9. A signal S, derived from the selsyn is limited by the bias applied to the diodes 6, 7 curve F, Fig. 4 so that a limited signal LS is fed out at terminals 5. The circuit may be made phase-selective, Fig. 2 by arranging that the diodes 6, 7 are only biased off during alternative half-cycles curves D, E, Fig. 4. As a result, signals which are in-phase are limited in the manner described with respect to Fig. 1 but out-of-phase signals are suppressed since neither diode 6, 7 is biased. Signals which are intermediate in phase will be passed in part and partly suppressed so that a pair of oppositely connected circuits may be connected in opposition, Fig. 3 the outputs being rectified by diodes 21, 22 feeding loads 23, 24 to develop a D.C. signal at terminals 27 with a polarity and magnitude varying with the phase and amplitude of the applied A.C. or as a, phase of a constant amplitude phase modulated signal.
Patent GB-564281-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to lubricating oils
IPC: B21B45/02
Filed: 1941-08-07
Abstract: 564,281. Viscosimeters. BARTON, C. H., HUGHES, T. P., and ANGLO-SAXON PETROLEUM CO., Ltd. Aug. 7, 1941, No. 10045. [Class 106 (ii)] [Also in Group III] The frothing of lubricating oils is reduced by adding from 0.01 to 0.1 per cent of the calcium soaps of wool oleins, or from 0.1 to 0.5 per cent of a sodium alkyl ester of sulphuric acid in which the alkyl group contains more than 10 carbon atoms. Preferably, a trace of water is added to the oil to enhance the effectiveness of the anti-foaming agent. In the preferred method of adding the calcium soap referred to, a composition is prepared by mixing 1 part of commercial wool olein, made from crude wool grease by distillation, with 3 parts of a heavy machine oil, heating to 80-85‹ C. and adding slaked lime in excess (generally 11 to 12 .per cent of the wool olein). The slacked lime is added slowly with constant stirring until the mixture is alkaline to phenolphthalein. This composition is added in the desired proportion to the lubricating oil at about 50-60‹C. In order to test the frothing properties of the treated oil, filtered air is blown through a sintered glass plate into a column of the oil contained in a graduated cylinder maintained at a temperature of 60‹ C. As soon as 10 c.c. of froth has formed above the oil, the air pressure is reduced so as to stop the flow of air without allowing oil to flow back through the sintered glass and as the froth breaks the times at which the froth surface passes the various calibrations on the cylinder are noted.
Patent GB-855999-A (GB)
Title: Welding apparatus
Inventor: LUCEY JOHN ANTHONY
IPC: B23K9/025
Filed: 1958-03-28
Abstract: 855,999. Photo-electrically controlled welding apparatus. QUASI-ARC Ltd. March 31, 1959 [March 28, 1958], No. 10072/58. Class 40(3). [Also in Group XXII] An electric arc apparatus for welding seams in members presented in succession to the welding head comprises photo-electric means for detecting the presence or absence of the members. The means interrupting the welding operation when there is no member present. In the welding of pre-formed tubes, Figs. 1 and 2, the seams 4, 5 of successive tubes 1, 2 are passed in alignment under welding electrodes 7, 8. Any gap between the ends of tubes 1, 2 is detected by means of a pair of photo-cells 9 positioned on either side of the seam and inside the tube. The cells have associated light sources 10 and one or both are energized if there is a gap between the tubes. The photo-cell output controls the welding operation. It may be arranged that welding is stopped only if the gap exceeds a chosen dimension.
Patent GB-1515258-A (GB)
Title: Process for the preparation of high purity polyester
IPC: C07C69/82
Filed: 1977-03-10
Abstract: 1515258 Preparation of polyester oligomers FIBER INDUSTRIES Inc 10 March 1977 [22 Mareh 1976] 10141/77 Heading C2C [Also in Division C3] The invention comprises a two-stage process for the preparation of polyester oligomers in which an alkylene glycol is esterified with a dicarboxylic acid in a first esterification stage at about atmospheric pressure using a molar ratio of acid to glycol in the range 1 : 1À0-1À2 and transferring the reaction product to a secondary esterifier operated at a pressure equal to or below that within the first esterification stage and adding additional alkylene glycol or alkylene carbonate to the secondary esterifier to complete the esterification reaction.
Patent GB-723349-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to hair waving solutions and creaming agents therefor
Filed: 1952-04-23
Abstract: An opacifier for an alkaline hair-waving solution containing a hair-reducing agent comprises a mineral oil, a sulphonated vegetable oil, a lanolin component and an ester of a fatty acid having a molecular weight of at least 200 with an aliphatic di- or tri-hydric alcohol.  Suitable esters include those of lauric, stearic, oleic and palmitic acids with ethylene glycol, propylene glycol and glycerol; diglycol oleate is preferred.  The lanolin component may be anhydrous lanolin or "lanogene," a mixture of the more volatile components of lanolin.  Sulphonated castor oil is the preferred sulphonated vegetable oil, and this may be only 50 per cent sulphonated if desired.  The preferred mineral oils have viscosities of about 50-150 S.U.S. at 100 DEG  F.  The opacifying composition may comprise 59-80 per cent of mineral oil, 2.5-15 per cent of sulphonated vegetable oil, up to 30 per cent of a lanolin component and 9-26 per cent of the ester, and 2-5 per cent of the opacifier may be employed in the hair-waving composition.  The hair-reducing agent is preferably a thiol, such as ammonium or sodium thioglycollate, mercaptoethane sulphonate or 3-mercapto-2-hydroxypropane sulphonate, and may be used in amounts of 4-10 per cent of the hair-waving composition.  A wetting agent such as hydrolysed protein condensed with a fatty acid may also be incorporated to an amount of 1-2 per cent in the hair-waving composition.  U.S.A.  Specification 2,464,281 is referred to.
Patent GB-198311-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in ozone generators
IPC: C01B13/11
Filed: 1923-04-16
Abstract: 198,311. Joseph, E. L. April 16, 1923. Gases, treating electrically.-In an ozone generator having parallel electrode plates alternating with dielectrics, spacing is effected by means of distance pieces each consisting of two parts, one of which has a central boss h projecting through an electrode and receiving the other part g, which is secured by screwing, by an adhesive, or otherwise. The distance pieces between the electrodes and dielectrics are solid. while those between plates of the same polarity, which project in one direction beyond the dielectrics, are hollow, as shown, to receive rods supporting the electrodes.
Patent GB-671167-A (GB)
Title: Strip material dispensing and applying device
IPC: B65C11/04
Filed: 1950-04-26
Abstract: 671,167. Applying labels. JOHNSON & JOHNSON (GT. BRITAIN), Ltd. April 26, 1950 [April 26, 1949], No. 10319/50. Class 73. A label dispensing and applying device has means for positively feeding a label strip to an applying roll as the device is pressed on to a surface and means for stopping the feed to sever the label by severing means after a predetermined length has been applied. A label strip 11 having spaced edge perforations engaging with teeth 27 of sprocket wheels 28, 29 is stored in a compartment 10 and may be provided with transverse perforations defining the label lengths. The labels press from the sprocket wheels under a severing element 32 over a moistening roll 35, supplied from a reservoir 63, to an applying squeegee roll 36. On the shaft 30 of the sprocket wheels is mounted an independently rotatable disc 55 on which is a pinion 54 which engages a rack 53 attached to a shoe 44 pivoted to opposed bolts 46. In use, as the device is placed on a surface the shoe is depressed in the direction of the arrow and rotates, through the rack and pinion connection 53,54, the disc 55 which, by engagement of a shoulder 58 with a spring 'pressed pawl 57, turns the sprocket-wheels to advance the strip 11 to the applying roll. As the device is drawn across the surface to apply a label, the shaft 30 continues to rotate and allow withdrawal of the strip 11 until a pin on the sprocket wheel 29 contacts a stop on the flange 48 of the shoe 44 to stop the feed of the strip 11 which then tightens against the severing element 32, conveniently in line with transverse perforations of the strip, to sever the label, the application of which can then be completed. During the latter applying movement the shoulder 58 of the disc 55 moves away from the pawl 57 but, on withdrawal of the device from the surface labelled, the shoe 44 is urged out into the position shown and in doing so rotates the disc 55 back to engage the pawl 57 and shoulder 58. A locking device is provided to hold the shoe 44 in its inner position when not in use.
Patent GB-927956-A (GB)
Title: Improved lead anchor means for induction apparatus
IPC: H02K3/52
Filed: 1961-03-21
Abstract: 927,956. Arrangement of leads within dynamoelectric machines. SUNBEAM CORPORATION. March 21, 1961 [July 7, 1960], No. 10339/61. Class 35. Supply leads 27, 28 of coils 13, 14 are securely anchored, to prevent damage when they support the stator weight before assembly in the motor casing, by being frictionally held in slot 17 either by the leads being a tight-fit in the slot or by use of slot wedge 31. The slot extends over the axial length of the laminated stator core 11 and is located at the centre of a pole root in order to reduce cross flux. The coils may be preformed or wound directly on to the stator core.
Patent GB-800224-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in curtain walls and cladding arrangements for walls
Inventor: KELLY GEORGE EDWARD
IPC: E04B2/56
Filed: 1955-04-12
Abstract: 800,224. Walls. BATH & PORTLAND STONE FIRMS, Ltd. July 6, 1956 [April 12, 1955], No. 10479/55. Class 20(4) A curtain wall or cladding for buildings comprises a series of horizontal ledge members 1 located within each space of the main framework of the building, the lowermost member of the series being supported by a horizontal member 2 of such main framework, and spaced vertical members 6 integral with or erected on the members 1 to form a vertical grid on which cladding panels 5 are mounted across the wall space between the members of the main framework. As shown, the members 1, of prestressed reinforced concrete, have outwardly projecting key-shaped portions 4 for co-operation with rebates 8, 9 formed on the upper and lower edges of the panels 5 of artificial or natural stone, the panels being bonded to the members by a grouting 10 of cement and by cement 11 to the flanged surrounds 7 for windows. The members 6 are of nailable lightweight concrete or of concrete in which nailable plugs are inserted. The members 1 or 6, or both, may be perforated or hollow or of troughlike section to decrease the weight of the wall assembly and to accommodate heating, water, &c. services.
Patent GB-1312893-A (GB)
Title: Screen printing machine
IPC: H05K3/12
Filed: 1971-04-21
Abstract: 1312893 Screen printing apparatus DIA-PRINT CO Inc 21 April 1971 [4 Jan 1971] 10545/71 Heading B6C The colour box 40 of a screen printing machine is movable simultaneously upwardly and rearwardly of the bed 26, along guide bars 64. The movement is effected by piston and cylinder 74, Fig. 2, through links 94. A squeegee assembly 112 (including motor 110, yoke 106, support bar 108 and squeegee 114) is mounted for transverse movement across the colour box on a rack bar 54, Fig. 6, and for pivoting movement about an axis 61 to give access to the screen. The screen holder 38 is located by screws 170 and clamping nuts 192 which engage depressions in the holder. The vacuum-type bed 26 is mounted for longitudinal and transverse adjustment on support surface 24.
Patent GB-577161-A (GB)
Title: Bulkhead clips for wires and conduits
IPC: H01B17/30
Filed: 1944-06-02
Abstract: 577,161. Cable clips. ADEL PRECISION PRODUCTS CORPORATION. June 2, 1944, No. 10660. Convention date, Sept. 14, 1943. [Class 36] [Also in Group XXV] Electric cables and conduits 2 are secured within bulkhead openings 3 by a split sleeve 1 which is clamped to the cable 2 and has tongues 9 passed through the opening 3 and bent against the far side, stop tongues 11 engaging the near side of the bulkhead 4. The sleeve may have a rib 12 to assist in gripping the cable.
Patent GB-591370-A (GB)
Title: Method of and apparatus for applying pigment or the like in suspension to paper during manufacture
IPC: D21H23/24
Filed: 1945-04-27
Abstract: 591,370. Adding substances to paper during manufacture. MUGGLETON, G. D. April 27, 1945, No. 10686. [Class 96] Liquid suspensions, e.g., of titanium dioxide or other pigment or filler with boiled starch adhesive or other substances giving opacity, colour, luminescence, radio-activity, inkabsorption, or impermeability, are fed from a pipe 10 through branches 10a to a header box 11 with a sloping floor and a horizontally and vertically adjustable flexible gate 13, down a spillway 12 to a wire-mesh roll, e.g., a dandy roll 5, to a paper or pulp web on a Fourdrinier wire-cloth 3 or at a press section of a paper-making machine. The flow of suspension is equalized by barriers 16 which may be perforated or toothed. Flow on to the roll 5 may be with, or against the rotation of the roll. A jet 18 of steam or air may clean the roll 5.
Patent GB-610291-A (GB)
Title: Spring mattress, preferably for beds
IPC: A47C23/155
Filed: 1946-04-08
Abstract: 610,291. Spring mattresses. PEDERSEN, G. V. April 8, 1946, No. 10716. Convention date, Jan. 7, 1943. [Class 52(iv)] In a surface wherein a series of parallel helical springs b spanning the frame is supported by a lower series, transversely arranged, blocks c with holes e, f at right angles to each other are provided at the points of intersection. Several pairs of such series can be connected by the use of deeper blocks as shown in Fig. 4. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 disclosed a supporting frame Fig. 5 (Cancelled, not shown), the inner periphery of which was bevelled to provide a greater free length for the springs. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-1146011-A (GB)
Title: Co-ordinating apparatus for binary information
IPC: G06F19/00
Filed: 1966-03-11
Abstract: 1,146,011. Information handling apparatus. COMPAGNIE DES FREINS ET SIGNAUX WESTINGHOUSE. 11 March, 1966 [14 April, 1965], No. 10723/66. Heading G4H. Binary information from a buffer is distributed in manually presettable groups to a commutating device selectively applying said groups to a plurality of logical operating circuits, a selection of which circuits is brought into operation in accordance with the group selected. In the apparatus shown (Fig. 2), binary information signals are received at inputs 1a. . . 1n. of input means 1 which comprises amplifiers 12 and inverters 11 for providing direct and inverted signals at outputs 1a2 ... 1n2 and 1a1 ... 1n1 respectively. By means of a plugboard 2, the signals are distributed into a number of groups of outputs 2a12, 2a22 ... 2n12, 2n22. Each group of outputs 2a12 &c. has each of its output terminals separately connected to a row of AND gates such as 14, 15 of a commutating device 3, each AND gate having one of its inputs connected to one output terminal of plugboard 2 and its other input connected in common by row to an output contact 10a1, 10a2 ... 10n1, 10n2 of a stepby-step selector device 10. The output terminals of the AND-gates 14, 15 &c. are connected through OR-gates 16 to the input terminals 18 of a logical operation device 5, not described in detail but comprising a number of circuits selectively brought into operation by signals at inputs 26 for performing logical operations on the binary information supplied at inputs 18 and for providing a resultant output signal, together with its inverse, at outputs 21, 22. The selection signals for inputs 26 are derived from the selector 10 by way of AND gates 23 in a commutating device 9 and a plugboard programmer 6. The output signals from the device 5 pass by way of AND gates 19, 20 appropriately opened by signals from selector 10 to bi-stable storage elements 30, 33 in a register 8. Output signals from register 8 may be used for control or other purposes. The selector 10 may consist of a binary counter or a decimal ring counter, the timing of which may be synchronized with external means or with signals from the output memories of the apparatus.
Patent GB-215370-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in thermostatically actuated gas regulators for use in conjunction withcooking apparatus
IPC: F23N5/06
Filed: 1924-05-01
Abstract: 215,370. Granhult Aktiebolag, H., (Assignees of Hult, C. J.). May 3, 1923, [Convention date]. Thermostats.-A thermostatically actuated gas regulator particularly applicable for use with cooking apparatus has a valve 8 carried by a lever 7 connected by a link 6 to the free end of a Bourdon tube 5. The Bourdon tube is connected bv a pipe 4 to an air vessel adapted to be raised in temperature by the heat of the chamber whose temperature it is desired to regulate. The pivot of the lever 7 is eccentrically mounted on a member 9 adapted to be rotated by a milled head 11, whereby the temperature at which the valve closes may be regulated. In a modification the valve member is formed on the end of the Bourdon tube and a cam stop is fitted for controlling the opening of the valve.
Patent GB-961814-A (GB)
Title: A filling valve for fuel tanks of pyrophoric lighters
Inventor: PROJAHN EMIL
IPC: F23Q2/52
Filed: 1963-03-19
Abstract: 961,814. Pyrophoric lighters. METALLWAREN A.G. BIRRWIL. March 19, 1963, No. 10858/63. Heading F4F. A filling valve for pyrophoric lighters comprises a headed screw 19 which screws into a bore 11 in the spindle 10 of the valve to cover the valve and to draw a disc 9 on the lower end of the valve against a packing ring 8. A filling socket 14 with a filling funnel 15 is mounted at the upper end of the valve spindle 10. The valve is closed by a pressure spring 17 disposed between a collar 18 of the filling socket 4 and a collar 6. The valve spindle 10 has a transverse bore 12.
Patent GB-131643-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mechanism for Actuating the Valves and other Devices of Internal Combustion Engines of the V-type.
Inventor: FRASCHINI ORESTE
IPC: F02B75/22
Filed: 1918-07-02
Abstract: 131,643. Fraschini, O. March 12, 1917, [Convention date]. Valve-gear.-In an engine having cylinders disposed in the form of a V, overhead cam shafts q, z are driven from inclined shafts h, l which are geared to a horizontal shaft e actuated from the crank-shaft through a vertical shaft c. The horizontal shaft may 'actuate water-circulating pumps p, p<1> and magnetos (not shown) which are driven from gear-wheels f. A vertical shaft s located below the crank-shaft may actuate a horizontal spindle u connected to pumps for circulating lubricating-oil. The lubricating-pumps may be driven from one or more of the gearwheels f.